Weegee was born in
Złoczów now known as Zolochive, Ukraine.
He has worked alongside of other commercial photographers doing different types
of jobs. He decided to leave his old job in 1935 and he decided to become a
freelance photographer. He worked at night and competed with the police to be
first at the scene of a crime. In 1957, He developed diabetes, he then moved in
with Wilma Wilcox, who was a social
worker whom he had known since the 1940s, she had cared for him and then cared
for his work. He travelled widely
in Europe until 1968, working alongside the Daily Mirror and
on a variety of photography shoots.
Most of
his photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and
methods of the era, he used a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera present
at f/16 at 1/200 of a second, with flashbulbs and a set focus
distance of ten feet. He developed his photographs in a homemade darkroom
in the rear of his car. This provided an instant result to his work that highlighted
the nature of the tabloid industry and gave the images a “hot off the press”
feeling.
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